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Example sentences for "predominate"

Lexicographically close words:
predispositions; predominance; predominancy; predominant; predominantly; predominated; predominately; predominates; predominating; predreadnought
  1. The yellow sneeze-weed and purple iron-weed predominate in great clumps upon the verge of the bank, and lend a cheerful tone to what would otherwise be a desolate landscape.

  2. A walk about town in the evening, revealed a number of bright, busy shops, chiefly kept by Norwegians, who predominate in this region.

  3. Conversely, behaviour shows what a person actually is chemically; that is, what endocrine and vegetative factors predominate in his make-up.

  4. Which will win appears to depend primarily upon the kind of endocrines that predominate in the make-up of the individual, secondarily with his education.

  5. The Irish and Cymraeg terms are both found to predominate most in the names of the most ancient Class, viz.

  6. Prichard, who has examined these vestiges of the ancient Celtic Populations of Europe with much ability and success, leans to the opinion that the Cymraeg or Welsh Dialects predominate in these names.

  7. However, other effects (such as indirect blast injuries and thermal injuries) are so predominate that patients with only direct blast injuries make up a small part of the patient workload.

  8. Some diseases will predominate in incidence, depending upon the geographical areas involved and the endemic diseases present.

  9. In places where musical characteristics predominate the player does best to choose whichever of these sources of touch seems most appropriate.

  10. This mode of blending can be extended also to entire harmonies in many cases where one fundamental chord is to predominate for some time while other chords may pass in quicker succession while it lasts.

  11. The question as to which group will predominate in timbre depends upon the number of instruments employed.

  12. In such combinations the strings will predominate provided that the two instruments are of equal power, e.

  13. Played softly, the flute will predominate in the low, the oboe in the upper register.

  14. But in such combinations, the range of which is practically restricted to the limits of the third octave, the low notes of the flute will predominate in the lower third of this register, and the high notes of the bassoon in the middle third.

  15. The flute will predominate in the lower, the clarinet in the higher register.

  16. The interests of a great nation, among themselves, are often contrary to each other, and each seems alternately to predominate and to decline.

  17. This alters the habits of the literary man: it is an unnatural depravity of his pursuits--and it proves that the personal is too apt to predominate over the literary character.

  18. For instance, if orange is intended to predominate in a decoration, let blue be mingled with it, but sparingly.

  19. They made the primary colours predominate over the secondary by quantity and position.

  20. B] At other points in the same coal-field the shales predominate over the sandstones.

  21. Hence these minerals predominate in the uppermost strata.

  22. Each hemistich must have two syllables which predominate over the rest in virtue of their logical and syntactical importance and have on this account a stronger stress.

  23. These brightest light-spots necessarily predominate in consciousness over the lesser ones.

  24. The senses which predominate are those which his being utilizes in acquiring knowledge.

  25. Disastrous signs predominate over auspicious, and the various effects are combined in a very elaborate and complicated manner.

  26. This type is found in its purest form in the north and north-west, while the mixed races and the population referred to the Australoid type predominate in the peninsula and southern India.

  27. In this case also the new characters predominate in the later periods of life, and are then transferred back to the younger ontogenetic stages in the course of phyletic development.

  28. That new characters actually predominate in the last stage of the ontogeny, may also be demonstrated from the markings of caterpillars.

  29. Why changes should predominate in the last stage, is a question closely connected with that of the causes of larval markings in general, and may therefore be investigated later.

  30. They come of not making "the past and the distant predominate over the present.

  31. This principle tends more and more to predominate in civilized States.

  32. On the other hand, at Cape Flora the cephalopods and the lamellibranchs predominate very largely.

  33. The cretaceous flora throws important light on the changes of climate in the Arctic regions, and, as has been pointed out, the tropical forms predominate in the vegetation of the Lower Cretaceous flora.

  34. There is no man, whose imagination does not, sometimes, predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.

  35. Now we find that the lower down we go in the animal kingdom, the more we observe reflex action, or non-mental adjustment, to predominate over volitional action, or mental adjustment.

  36. That fond partiality for my own countrymen, which used to predominate so powerfully in my breast when I was a prisoner, entirely forsook me here, and I cursed them aloud.

  37. The Jews are more largely represented in the movement from Russia than any other people, and predominate practically for the entire thirty years.

  38. They predominate as well in the preparation of food products, in the building trades, in the metal, wood and tobacco industries.

  39. Here the Slavonic races so largely predominate that the term Slavonic Europe has been applied to this section of Europe.


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    Other words:
    ascendant; best; bestride; better; boss; cap; chief; commanding; controlling; dictate; dominant; dominate; domineer; exceed; excel; general; governing; head; improve; leading; loom; master; obtain; outweigh; overbearing; overcome; overpass; paramount; perfect; predominant; predominate; preponderant; preponderate; prepotent; prevail; prevalent; regnant; regulatory; reign; reigning; rule; ruling; sovereign; supreme; surpass; top; transcend; trump